Imagine, if you will, that you are approaching a threshold. As you draw nearer, you intensify, quicken. Every part of you wonders, in a deep and unfathomable way, what is approaching. Yet IT is now approaching, and we are approaching it even as IT is approaching us. The quickening intensifies; we are perplexed, amused, confounded, spurred, and being moved in deep ways toward even deeper mysteries that are beyond description.

At my old political blog I covered a lot of stories on different aspects of global warming as it's gotten worse year by year, since it's the major issue facing our world. In this USA Today story, we are told "Human-caused global warming is here, visible in the air, water and melting ice, and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week." As one Canadian climate scientist put it, ""This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of intergalactic smoking missiles." Some primary points of the article follow, but please go to the news story to get the full picture.

A recent comment inspired me to offer this brief note on Saturn, since it is the nozzle for effective focus at this time. Saturn is said to "rule time," and its keywords all involve learning how to use time to best effect. When we totally adopt Saturn's virtues, we "do Saturn" as there is no separation between its function and our behavior. Learning all we can about how to adapt the way we express Saturn in our lives is the key to its planetary duality, "dominion and slavery." So why are things seemingly moving so quickly?

As I pointed out yesterday, Saturn is conjunct the Plutos of everyone on Earth over the next few years. This affects entire generations, and is revealing of changes and restructuring at the most fundamental of levels, since Pluto is our "seed power" of transpersonal transformation that reveals an aspect of our "personal immortality." Today we take a look at each generation that is affected.

Due to Pluto's transpersonal transforming influence in our charts, everyone on Earth has been going through big changes in the past 4 years, or will be going through major changes in the next decade. Why? Look no farther than Saturn's transit of these times, as it has conjuncted, is conjuncting, or will conjunct the Pluto of every generation on Earth in the near past and near future.

For your consideration, "The Universal Soldier," a Buffy Sainte Marie song as done by Donovan back in 1966. It's still as strong today as it was then. Someone's done a great video to go with it, so by all means, go below the fold to find all the lyrics and video to a Donovan performance of this powerful statement about "the Universal Soldier."

He's five foot two, and he's six feet four,
he fights with missiles and with spears,
he's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
he's been a soldier for a thousand years.

There has been a lot written about the Quintile series of aspects, much of it vague and very generalized. Since these angles occur with great frequency, there is relatively little written about them, and a very important one is occurring at the present time, I thought I should offer you some insights about this misunderstood but very powerful series of aspects.

From one of our friends over at Astroworld.com, a link in a comment stream to a brilliant film, 7 minutes and powerful. Be patient waiting through the opening credits, as the movie is worth it. Enjoy! (With thanks to JoannaOregon and Shylurker). In another political development, it seems New Mexico's legislature is about to invoke Thomas Jefferson's rules for the US House and introduce Impeachment resolutions to rid us of our Incompetent-In-Chief. Check it out here. I covered other states' efforts to initiate this at my old political blog, and while I don't usually cover political events here, I figured my readers might want to know about this obscure rule that could very well lead to Bush's impeachment.

If you were here this time last year, you know that January 9 is perhaps the most sacred day of my year. This is the day each year I dedicate to the memory of one who was closer to me than my own breath, the heart of my heart. This was the day 19 years ago that my life turned upside down, changing me forever. I was thrown into a journey difficult beyond description, with no guarantee that I would ever find release and relief from the overwhelming grief thrust upon me by a circumstance truly beyond my control, or anyone else's, for that matter. If you're ready to go deeper, read on.